Sports and the racial divide
Subtitle: African American and Latino experience in an era of change
By: edited by Michael E. Lomax.
Contributors: Lomax, Michael E.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781604730142
Subjects: Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History; African American athletes -- History; Mexican American athletes -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The African American and Latino athlete in Post World War II America : a historical review / Michael E. Lomax; title: New Orleans, new football league, and new attitudes : the American Football League all-star game boycott, January 1965 / Maureen Smith; title: Battles for control over Muhammad Ali's career and image / Michael Ezra; title: Bedazzle them with brilliance, bamboozle them with bull : Harry Edwards, black power, and the revolt of the black athlete revisited / Michael E. Lomax; title: The black panther party and the revolt of the black athlete : sport and revolutionary consciousness / Ron Briley; title: Dark spirits : the emergence of cultural nationalism on the sidelines and on campus / Kurt Edward Kemper; title: Title IX and African American female athletes / Sarah K. Fields; title: Mexican baseball teams in the midwest, 1916 1965 : the politics of cultural survival and civil rights / Richard Santillan; title: Roberto Clemente : images, identity, and legacy / Samuel O. Regalado; title: The pigskin pulpito : a brief overview of the experiences of Mexican American high school football coaches in Texas / Jorge Iber; title: Conclusion. A contested terrain : the sporting experiences of African American and Latino athletes in Post World War II America / Billy Hawkins.